Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I got the below mail from Sun and therefore want to address some problems that I had transferring my 148 page book containing 130 pictures of a digital camera from word to Open Office 1.1.3. in january this year.
I have heard that open office would like to be the future number one program for text editing. So here comes my report:
The sdw is a 118kB file and I have about 130 external picture files mainly as jpg in a separate directory.
_problem 1: _ in comparison to word the time to load is very long. I can live with this for now, but it is not convenient because Open Office is the newer software and normally should perform better than the older one. No big problem at the moment. :-)
_problem 2:_ there is page 23 where I cannot move the pictures as I want. If I made one bigger and afterwards smaller the text would not move up to the picture again. I tried to solve this several times - unfortunately without success. I could not find a difference to the other pictures that worked. May be having a look at the xml code would be helpful in this case. I did not know how to procede with this.
_problem 3:_ sizing the pictures seems to be less smooth than with word. It seems to be difficult to get the same height in comparison with microsoft.
_problem 4:_
sometimes I have two pictures in one line and want to have
only one picture text line belonging to both of them
instead of having 2 lines belonging to each of the pictures. I tried using one line, but have problems getting a consistent
spacing between line and picture.
If I have 2 pictures the spacing is bigger.
_problem 5:_ after editing some jpgs in PaintShopPro 5 I was able to look at them in Irfan, but I was unable to cut them **by opening the graphics window by a double mouse click. I had to convert the jpg to the big bmp file format to get this to work.
_problem 6:_ the export to html works well but the pictures are not shown as I did cut them.
_problem 7:_ the export back to word showed some problems with the overall page layout. So I could not rework some details using word.
May be some of these problems have been solved in 1.1.4 or 2 beta, but I had no time to check this yet. I would really like to use Open Office in the future, but there are still some draw backs which I hope will be overcome soon. :-)
Best Regards Matthias Weisser
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